Brooke Fox

It just made me think of when Brooke's uncle, Soupy the Clown, decided to hang up his balloon animal gig and transition to oversized shoe salesman.

It's spongy.

Whatever.

How can you not remember?

When it happened, I just know the whole family scoffed at him, saying, you're besmirching the good Fox family clown legacy.

And they said it all while honking their noses at him the entire time.

Everyone spray him with your flour.

Tough crowd.

Well, we've got another dramatic career change that's affecting one young couple, and it could throw a giant clown wrench into their happy relationship.

If you don't know, that's not good in clown world.

It's not good.

You're going to hear why in your brand new Awkward Tuesday phone call right after this.

We were in the car, like a rolling stone came on, and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.

What I would do if I didn't feel like I was being accepted is choose an identity that other people can't have.

Michael Lewis here.

My book, The Big Short, tells the story of the buildup and burst of the U.S.

housing market back in 2008.

It follows a few unlikely but lucky people who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception.

It was like feeding the monster, said Eisman.

We fed the monster until it blew up.